Description:Group photograph of students and staff of Rodbaston Farm Institute, 1959-60.
Back row (left to right): J.A. Birch, W.E.F. Meakin, R.M. Hocknell, N. Foxley, M.H. Tomkinson, A. Lawton, D.E.R. Ashton, G. Edwards, A. MacKay.
2nd row: J.S. Read, M.H. Perkins, J.D. Spencer, T. Bradford, R.S. Bourne, M.E. Watson, D.A. Evans, P.S. Hodgkiss, P. MacDonald, T.M. Hall, M.J. Grove, D.T. Boden.
3rd row: J.R. Simkin, C.O. Hall, M.G. Mycock, K.M. Hill, I.R. Room, M. Dawson, C.J. Ashford, M.J. Roberts, S.C. Greenaway, E. Whitehouse, G.R.G. Poppett, B.J. Smith, B. Groves, B.S. Sneyd, E. Holden.
4th row: Mr A.G. Holland (Machinery), Miss J. Wincer, Miss M. Hart, Miss Parrott, Miss R. Swain, Miss G. Phillips, Miss D. Sillito, Miss J. Pointon, Miss B.J. Wood, Miss I. Leason, Miss R. Barton, Miss J.A. Swinton, Mr P.E. Linson (Machinery).
Front row: Mr R.K. Mowforth (Horticulture), Mr M.G.H. Crook (Extra mural), Mr B.D. Lucas (Extra mural), Mrs J.A.F. Miller, Mr J.C. Matthews (Animal husbandry), Mss A. meddins (Rural domestic economy), Mr H.E. Wells (Principal), Miss B.A. Stopforth (Dairy), Mr F.A,. Houghton (Bursar), Miss A.M. Dransfield (Poultry), Mr C.L. Johnson (Crop husbandry), Miss R.N. Miles (Matron), Mr P.B. Gillard (Macihinery).
Missing from the photograph because she had scalded her leg whilst working in the dairy is Charlotte Whalley.
Rodbaston College's origins lie in 1919 when the War Agricultural Committee opened an agricultural training depot. In 1921 it became Rodbaston Farm Institute, which was run by the County Council. It was renamed the Staffs College of Agriculture in 1967. In 1994 it became independent and was renamed Rodbaston College.